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1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident

12 Mar 1953 · 53.38° N, 10.66° E

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12 Mar 1953
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53.38° N, 10.66° E
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cold War incident over East Germany
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1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident

Cold War incident over East Germany

On 12 March 1953, an Avro Lincoln, which had intruded into East German airspace while flying on the Hamburg-Berlin air corridor over East Germany during a training mission, was shot down by a Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighter aircraft. The incident drew intense criticism because the surviving crew members were fired at and killed by the Soviet aircraft, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions.

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